inference
nounUK /ˈɪn.fə.ɹəns/ · CA, US /ˈɪn.fɚ.əns/
Etymology From Latin inferentia. Morphologically infer + -ence.
1
The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
2
That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
- A key part of McCarthy’s argument, as made in other settings, such as a Larry King evening news show and on a now-infamous Oprah episode, focuses on the fact that children receive more vaccines now than ever before, which she believes corresponds with a rise in autism rates. However, as scientists and others who reject fallacious inferences point out, correlation is not causation.2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 124:
3
Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
Artificial intelligence
4
An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.
Artificial intelligence
- Derived terms
- inference rule, inference to the best explanation, inferencing, inferential, macroinference, microinference, misinference, type inference
- Hyponyms
- deductive inference, inductive inference, statistical inference